[Asterisk-Users] Toll-free DID switchover: Get status?

[James Taylor]

"Switchover" comes with your LOA to the new carrier.
They (or the company actiing as their RESPORG) program you number in  
SMS/800.
The old company can drag their feet for a few days in releasing your  
number just to keep biling you.
Your new company can do an emergency request.  It's $35-$50 on time charge  
to force the change in about a day.

Sounds like you number is pointed in the wrong direction if you are  
getting all of the weird recordings.
James
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:24:51 -0500, <tmassey at obscorp.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I am in the middle of having a vanity toll-free DID set up.  It's been 13
> days now (9 business days).  This is the first time I'm doing this, and
> I'm not sure of the process.  There has been a very weird progression of
> changes on my number, from fast-busy, to a message saying that I'm  
> calling
> from a phone with restrictions (no matter *what* line I call from), to a
> number advertising a $4/min "national directory assistance", and now back
> to the restrictions error message.
>
> Is there a way to track the status of a toll-free DID switchover?  I've
> checked the AT&T database and they no longer show my number as being
> available (and I hope that's because I'm getting it!  :)  ), but that's
> all I've been able to find out.  The company performing the switchover  
> has
> been less than proactive in giving me information on this, even after
> several requests.  I understand that much (if not all) of the switchover
> is out of their hands;  however, I would really like to know why my DID
> seems to be taking such a strange (and seemingly slow) roller-coaster
> road, and more important, when I'll be able to get off!
>
> Thank you for any information you would be able to provide!  It seems  
> that
> toll-free is its own little world, and they don't want others to be
> involved.  I would appreciate any help you would be able to provide.
>
> Tim Massey
>
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